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Show UTAH STATE NEWS Ai nutl!:iry i.vrultin station h;is ,lu-on o;i".i-.l at 1'ivxo. Si'li.ii'l I'.iiMivit :iro u !u I'lilistiM In tho v'lo.m u; cnisiulo in S.i'.l l.aUo City. Salt lake will niako :l strons Mil for tho Kotari.m convention In V.HT .si nil will havo tho support of tho I'ttioti Vaoilto railway. Public spirited moti ami women of Kanab havo ilooiiloil to raise funds t build a $15,000 homo for tho UIrU school hoys :uul girls. Camps aro being constructed by tho contractors who will do a million dollars dol-lars worth of work in double tracking tho Union Pacific east of Ogden. More than TOO residents of Utah county took part In the celebration on March 24 which marked tho complexion comple-xion of the Orem lines to Salem. Steps are being taken by the Salt I-ake, Federation of 1-abor toward the founding of a newspaper to be devoted devot-ed to tho interests of organised labor. An election has been called for a bond issue of $100,000 by Millard county to build a $25,000 schoolhonso at Delta and for the erection of a hifih school at Filmore. Rabies was discovered in the brain ol a coyote sent to Dr. T. B. I'eatty. secretary of the state board of health, by E. J. Ineck, station agent at Le-may, Le-may, Box Elder county. The Carbon county baseba'.l league, which has just been formed, consisting consist-ing of four teams Helper, Trice, Castle Gate and Sunnyside opens its season April 16 and closes September 3. Improvements to be made in Vtah ty the Union Pacific at a cost of $3.-000.000 $3.-000.000 are announced. Two tunnels are to be constructed and improvements improve-ments made at the station in Salt Lake. At a meeting of tobacco users held at Kanab, it was decided to abstain from the use of tobacco for one year, and devote the money saved to buying buy-ing and planting trees to beautify the town. Under pressure of snow which fell to the depth of nearly fourteen inches in Salt Lake, the roof of Majestic park dancing pavilion collapsed, entailing en-tailing a loss estimated at ? 15.000 to $;5,0-jO. Demanding equal rights in all activities activ-ities of the Ogden high school, the girl students are insisting that they be permitted to participate in the in-terclass in-terclass track meet to be held at the school April 7. It is announced vhat trading stamp companies will make no further attempt at-tempt to resist payment of the tax of 50 cents on each thousand stamps or fraction thereof imposed by the last legislature. Frank Philbrook, charged with murder) mur-der) in the first degree in connection with the death of Pat Quigley, a miner, declared to have been poisoned in an Ogden rooming house, will be placed on trial on April 10. While the bandit who held up the Oregon . Short Line train near Roy wore overalls he was a "gentleman robber," in the opinion of O. H. Chaffee Chaf-fee and H. B. Thomas, engineer and fireman, respectively, of the muleted train. An official call for the gathering of temperance workers in Salt Lake City April 8 has been issued by John M. 'WTiittaker, president, and Edwin M. Sheets, secretary", of the Utah Federation Fed-eration of Prohibition and Betterment leagues. A Bamberger railway board of in quiry meeting held at Ogden reported that Horace Eldredge, 17 years old, came to his death in Bountiful Friday morning because he did not use due caution. The train crew was absolved from blame. Harrison Sperry, a member of the second train of pioneers, to locate in the Salt Lake valley in 1S47, was the honored guest at an entertainment given at Salt Lake City on March 24 by over 100 relatives, the occasion being be-ing his 84th anniversary. Hundreds of horses to be examined by inspectors of the French government govern-ment will be shipped into Ogden every week with the completion of the new horse yards and buying ring now being be-ing constructed in the local railwaj yards by the Ogden Horse Sales com pany. Only in cases of emergency wil travelers be permitted to use the Ogden Og-den canyon boulevard for the present, the Weber county commissioners announced an-nounced Saturday, in view of the dangerous dan-gerous condition of the highway in places where the retaining wall has been washed away by the turbulent river. Members of the Salt Lake delegation delega-tion who attended the Utah-Idaho-Yel-lowstone highway association conference confer-ence at Pocatello returned to Salt Lake highly enthusiastic over prospects pros-pects of making the Salt Lake-Yellowstone highway one of the best roads In the intermountain west before July 1. Tearing open five mattresses in the Ogden jail, Edward Crawford, a prisoner, pris-oner, set fire to the contents. Apparently Appar-ently fearing Crawford, the other prisoners gave no warning and the tire was blazing fiercely when the jailer discovered the blaze, which was Boon extinguished. James William Halstead, nearly S3 years of age, committed suicide at Salt Lake by leaping from a window Dn the seventh floor of the Judge building. Nearly every bone in his body was broken. He had been ill and discouraged for some time. |